25 tracks just to know your name*
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dolorosa_12This the '25 Random Things' meme. It popped up about three weeks ago on LJ, but I didn't do it because the title annoyed me. With memes like this, nothing is 'random'. People edit themselves online and select 25 things that bolster their persona. After a while, I started to see the meme pop up on Facebook. Still I resisted. But when even John Scalzi is doing it, I figured it was time for me to embrace the bandwagon.
In case youhave been hiding under a rock have not seen them yet, here are the instructions:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you. I don't do tagging.
1. I'm always disturbed when I become older than the characters in my favourite books, TV series and films.
2. I can justify just about any behaviour on my part if I can equate it to song lyrics. Especially if the song is by Massive Attack.
3. Everything I've done for the past two years is meant to ensure I never have to work in an open-plan office ever again.
4. I got a job as a young-adult book-reviewer by writing an angry letter to the top children's book-reviewer in Australia, attacking her intelligence and accusing her of not reading the books she reviewed. I still have the letter, and one of these days I'm going to apologise to her.
5. My ideal dinner party would include Joss Whedon, Philip Pullman, Victor Kelleher, John Marsden, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Pagan Kidrouk. Suibne Geilt would wander through every so often, munching on watercress and spouting crazed (but brilliant) poetry.
6. I attach way too much sentimental value to things. My mother used to have to go through my sock drawer by stealth and throw out six-year-old pairs of socks.
7. When I was a child, I wrote in a diary that 'we could save our world by not doing rough stuff'. When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a tree-hugging protester when I grew up. When I was 20, I wrote, at least five times in every journal, 'I hope I never lose my teenage idealism'. Last night, I said to my friends (in the context of a conversation about Reagan, Thatcher and the Israel-Lebanon war), 'Really, no era was ever good'. Teenage idealism? What teenage idealism?
8. I have been known to rearrange books in mainstream bookstores.
9. I am a crazed vampire fangirl (especially of vampires in their Buffy and Anne Rice incarnations) but I have not read Dracula. This is a deficiency I hope to remedy this year.
10. Two years ago, I thought the internet was the spawn of Satan. These days, my default position is: Bad/good/disturbing/mildly interesting thing happens--->Blog about/take pictures of/post on TRoH about/change Facebook status in relation to it.
11. I detest my natural hair-colour. I believe it to be mouse-brown. The fact that my sister's hair (which I think looks lovely) is the same colour is entirely irrelevant. I have dyed my hair black with henna for five years.
12. I have a rather inexplicable love of house, electro and trance music. In my opinion, you can never have too much synth. This dates back to the years of En Vogue and hi nrg Wild compilation CDs. Canberrans will know what I mean.
13. I believe if every teenager was made to sit down and watch the Buffy episode 'Earshot' school would be a much happier place for all.
14. I have terrible double standards. In my opinion, only my sister and I can criticise and make jokes about our family. Only real Canberrans (those who have lived in Canberra since at least the age of ten or 11) can poke fun at Canberra and only Australians can make fun of Australia. This does not, however, prevent me from making fun of Sydney (despite the fact that I only lived there from the ages of 18-22, and then half a year when I was 23). It also does not prevent me from whining about England.
15. I make broad generalisations about my generation (Y) and the 90s, based on my limited (and unrepresentative) experiences of childhood in middle-class Canberra and young-adulthood as one of a nice, nerdy, middle-class group of friends.
16. I was born in New York and am therefore an American citizen. You can thank me for Obama now.
17. When I was in years 11 and 12, I was known as 'PanicRonni'. In light of this, some of my friends arranged to send me a Panic Room poster with an anonymous note with letters cut from newspapers saying 'Don't panic.'. Needless to say, when the gift arrived in my biology classroom, I was hysterical.
18. I did the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme for four years. Despite having been on an average of four hikes a year during this time, I never lit a fire. 'I was raised to believe that mendig up the corpses build the fires and women raise the babies.'
19. I'm a terrible coffee snob.
20. I've seen every Cirque du Soleil show since Le Cirque Réinventé and have an unreasonable dislike of fans who haven't been aware of the circus that long. I get annoyed when watching the show when people applaud stuff that looks flashy but isn't (stuff like people doing the splits) and don't applaud stuff that looks easy but is really difficult. In particular, I'm a fan of adagio, which I feel doesn't get enough love.
21. I worry when I don't cry in sad books, movies and TV episodes.
22. When I was 15 I decided I was going to have five daughters and their names were going to be Baella Katriona, Rosie Miriam, Imogen Amber, Ta'iri Dawkinda and Lyra Suiko. Thank Joss I didn't reproduce. (I'm also not entirely sure how I thought I was going to ensure all my children were female.)
23. I can still remember the subjects of our Year 11 English class's presentations on Hamlet, but struggled to remember what day of the week it was earlier this year.
24. 'I don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and I don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too.'
25.
*These lyrics are wrong. I know.
In case you
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.
1. I'm always disturbed when I become older than the characters in my favourite books, TV series and films.
2. I can justify just about any behaviour on my part if I can equate it to song lyrics. Especially if the song is by Massive Attack.
3. Everything I've done for the past two years is meant to ensure I never have to work in an open-plan office ever again.
4. I got a job as a young-adult book-reviewer by writing an angry letter to the top children's book-reviewer in Australia, attacking her intelligence and accusing her of not reading the books she reviewed. I still have the letter, and one of these days I'm going to apologise to her.
5. My ideal dinner party would include Joss Whedon, Philip Pullman, Victor Kelleher, John Marsden, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Pagan Kidrouk. Suibne Geilt would wander through every so often, munching on watercress and spouting crazed (but brilliant) poetry.
6. I attach way too much sentimental value to things. My mother used to have to go through my sock drawer by stealth and throw out six-year-old pairs of socks.
7. When I was a child, I wrote in a diary that 'we could save our world by not doing rough stuff'. When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a tree-hugging protester when I grew up. When I was 20, I wrote, at least five times in every journal, 'I hope I never lose my teenage idealism'. Last night, I said to my friends (in the context of a conversation about Reagan, Thatcher and the Israel-Lebanon war), 'Really, no era was ever good'. Teenage idealism? What teenage idealism?
8. I have been known to rearrange books in mainstream bookstores.
9. I am a crazed vampire fangirl (especially of vampires in their Buffy and Anne Rice incarnations) but I have not read Dracula. This is a deficiency I hope to remedy this year.
10. Two years ago, I thought the internet was the spawn of Satan. These days, my default position is: Bad/good/disturbing/mildly interesting thing happens--->Blog about/take pictures of/post on TRoH about/change Facebook status in relation to it.
11. I detest my natural hair-colour. I believe it to be mouse-brown. The fact that my sister's hair (which I think looks lovely) is the same colour is entirely irrelevant. I have dyed my hair black with henna for five years.
12. I have a rather inexplicable love of house, electro and trance music. In my opinion, you can never have too much synth. This dates back to the years of En Vogue and hi nrg Wild compilation CDs. Canberrans will know what I mean.
13. I believe if every teenager was made to sit down and watch the Buffy episode 'Earshot' school would be a much happier place for all.
14. I have terrible double standards. In my opinion, only my sister and I can criticise and make jokes about our family. Only real Canberrans (those who have lived in Canberra since at least the age of ten or 11) can poke fun at Canberra and only Australians can make fun of Australia. This does not, however, prevent me from making fun of Sydney (despite the fact that I only lived there from the ages of 18-22, and then half a year when I was 23). It also does not prevent me from whining about England.
15. I make broad generalisations about my generation (Y) and the 90s, based on my limited (and unrepresentative) experiences of childhood in middle-class Canberra and young-adulthood as one of a nice, nerdy, middle-class group of friends.
16. I was born in New York and am therefore an American citizen. You can thank me for Obama now.
17. When I was in years 11 and 12, I was known as 'PanicRonni'. In light of this, some of my friends arranged to send me a Panic Room poster with an anonymous note with letters cut from newspapers saying 'Don't panic.'. Needless to say, when the gift arrived in my biology classroom, I was hysterical.
18. I did the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme for four years. Despite having been on an average of four hikes a year during this time, I never lit a fire. 'I was raised to believe that men
19. I'm a terrible coffee snob.
20. I've seen every Cirque du Soleil show since Le Cirque Réinventé and have an unreasonable dislike of fans who haven't been aware of the circus that long. I get annoyed when watching the show when people applaud stuff that looks flashy but isn't (stuff like people doing the splits) and don't applaud stuff that looks easy but is really difficult. In particular, I'm a fan of adagio, which I feel doesn't get enough love.
21. I worry when I don't cry in sad books, movies and TV episodes.
22. When I was 15 I decided I was going to have five daughters and their names were going to be Baella Katriona, Rosie Miriam, Imogen Amber, Ta'iri Dawkinda and Lyra Suiko. Thank Joss I didn't reproduce. (I'm also not entirely sure how I thought I was going to ensure all my children were female.)
23. I can still remember the subjects of our Year 11 English class's presentations on Hamlet, but struggled to remember what day of the week it was earlier this year.
24. 'I don't care about the young folks
talkin' bout the young style
and I don't care about the old folks
talkin' 'bout the old style too.'
25.
*These lyrics are wrong. I know.
